band / belt / girdle / ribbon / tire / area / zone / region / CL:條|条[tiao2] / to wear / to carry / to take along / to bear (i.e. to have) / to lead / to bring / to look after / to raise

= + + : Don Quixote purchased thirty cooking tops in the airplane's bathroom to build new armor out of them. Now the question is: how does he get them home? Finally he has a good idea: He spreads out a towel on the floor, stacks the thirty cooking tops as a pyramid and pulls the towel with a belt. It works! This way he can bring them back to his place.

带 character breakdown

"cover" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 14), occurring in 軍|军[jun1], 冠[guan1] etc, known as 禿寶蓋|秃宝盖[tu1 bao3 gai4] or 平寶蓋|平宝盖[ping2 bao3 gai4]

Mnemonic symbol: 冖 shall be represented by a saucepan lid. Marilyn Monroe (mi-) wants to use the bathroom in the space station (Ø4), but the door is broken! She tries to cover herself with a saucepan lid (冖) instead.
thirty

= + : Thirty is a square pyramidal number, that is you can built a pyramid with a square base (of four times four items in that layer) out of fourty things.

= + : Just as Socrates is using the ashram's bathroom the water of the river is swelling so much that he will have to swim unless he uses a boat or something similar. Socrates thinks that this is the perfect opportunity to try out a model he had in mind for a long time. With thirty flutes he builds an inverted pyramid and yes, it floats!
towel / general purpose cloth / women's headcovering (old) / Kangxi radical 50

= + : Joan of Arc has smuggled a dinosaur bone out of the encampment. To hide it, she covered it in maps and towels.

Characters with 带 as component

sluggish

= + + + : James II of England (zh) has stacked thirty (卅) cooking tops (冖) as a pyramid on top of a towel (巾) on the floor of the space station bathroom (Ø4), and sluggishly (滞) pulls the towel with a belt (带). He soaks the towel in water from a bottle of water (氵) to make it slide more easily.

Words with 带

to bring / to bring about / to produce
to bring / (fig.) to bring about; to produce
adhesive tape / rubber belt / recording tape
adhesive tape / magnetic tape
shoelace / CL:根[gen1],雙|双[shuang1]
to lead the way / to guide / to show the way / fig. to instruct
to lead the way; to guide; to show the way / (fig.) to instruct
vocal cords / vocal folds / (motion picture) soundtrack
to spur / to provide impetus / to drive
conveyor belt / transmission belt
colored ribbon / streamer / CL:條|条[tiao2]
belt (in trousers) / CL:根[gen1]
watchband / watch strap
watchband / watch strap
to carry a disease / carrier / vector
to be suffering from an illness (often implying "in spite of being sick") / to carry the causative agent of an infectious disease
cassette tape / abbr. for 盒式錄音磁帶|盒式录音磁带 / CL:盤|盘[pan2]
waistband of a skirt / (fig.) related to the wife or another female family member

Sentences with 带

kuài
kuài
dài
ǎn
qián
qù